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Province · Northwest China
Gansu is a province in Northwest China. Eleven PreeChina city guides cover Gansu.
One Grade I national museum stands in the province. Three UNESCO World Heritage properties have a listed component there.
Counts on this page come from PreeChina's own data as of October 2026. Tickets, opening hours and reservations are not listed, so contact each venue or check its official website for accurate information.
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City Guides
Each city name opens its PreeChina guide.
Landmark Guides
In-depth guides to six landmarks in Gansu.
Top Attractions
A pick from the Top Attractions of the city guides in Gansu. Each card opens the Top Attractions of its city.
Dunhuang
492 decorated caves with 45,000 square metres of murals, daily visitor numbers strictly capped.
Lanzhou
30 kilometres of walkway past the 1909 Iron Bridge, the Yellow River Mother sculpture, and waterwheel gardens.
Zhangye
A 34-metre clay Sakyamuni from 1098, one of the few substantial Western Xia buildings still standing.
Dunhuang
"Singing Sand Mountain," named for the sound of avalanching sand, encircling a spring-fed oasis lake.
Lanzhou
The Flying Horse, Han Dynasty garrison wooden slips, and Tang Buddhist sculpture from the corridor caves.
Zhangye
Cave temples cut into a red sandstone cliff, maintained as living Tibetan Buddhist practice since the 4th century.
Dunhuang
The northern gate through which Khotan jade entered China, standing to its original 10-metre height.
Lanzhou
Named for five springs, with Ming and Qing temples and a view explaining Lanzhou's river-and-desert geography.
Zhangye
Colourful banded rock walls in a narrower, less-visited canyon with a turquoise lake at its base.
Dunhuang
Built for Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum," now a full-scale Han Dynasty frontier city recreation.
Lanzhou
Restored shophouses reflecting the Central Asian, Tibetan, Han and Hui trading cultures that met here.
Zhangye
62 square kilometres of reed bed and marsh in the Heihe oasis, home to over 150 bird species.
Museums
These museums are on the China Museums Association Grade I lists and appear on the museums theme page.
one museum in Gansu
World Heritage
A property is counted when UNESCO lists at least one component point inside Gansu. Long lines such as the Great Wall and coastal sites list some of their points, so the list can be shorter than the true extent.
three properties
Routes
Three PreeChina routes include stops in Gansu.
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